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    Dsm-5 Criteria For Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is diagnosed when a person experiences a traumatic event and exhibits certain criteria of symptoms for over a month. The criteria include re-experiencing the event through intrusive thoughts or flashbacks, avoiding reminders of the trauma, negative changes in mood and cognition, and increased arousal and reactivity. The symptoms must cause distress or impairment and cannot be due to other factors like medication or illness.

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    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is diagnosed when a person experiences a traumatic event and exhibits certain criteria of symptoms for over a month. The criteria include re-experiencing the event through intrusive thoughts or flashbacks, avoiding reminders of the trauma, negative changes in mood and cognition, and increased arousal and reactivity. The symptoms must cause distress or impairment and cannot be due to other factors like medication or illness.

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    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is diagnosed when a person experiences a traumatic event and exhibits certain criteria of symptoms for over a month. The criteria include re-experiencing the event through intrusive thoughts or flashbacks, avoiding reminders of the trauma, negative changes in mood and cognition, and increased arousal and reactivity. The symptoms must cause distress or impairment and cannot be due to other factors like medication or illness.

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    DSM-5 CRITERIA FOR

    POST-TRAUMATIC
    STRESS DISORDER
    POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS
    DISORDER
    Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people
    who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a
    serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, or rape or who have been threatened with
    death, sexual violence or serious injury.
    Criterion A: stressor
    The person was exposed to: death, threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury,
    or actual or threatened sexual violence, in the following way(s):

    • Direct exposure
    • Witnessing the trauma
    • Learning that a relative or close friend was exposed to a trauma
    • Indirect exposure to aversive details of the trauma, usually in the course of
    professional duties (e.g., first responders, medics)
    Criterion B: intrusion symptoms
    The traumatic event is persistently re-experienced in the following way(s):
    • Unwanted upsetting memories
    • Nightmares
    • Flashbacks
    • Emotional distress after exposure to traumatic reminders
    • Physical reactivity after exposure to traumatic reminders
    Criterion C: avoidance
    Avoidance of trauma-related stimuli after the trauma, in the following way(s):
    • Trauma-related thoughts or feelings
    • Trauma-related external reminders
    Criterion D: negative alterations in
    cognitions and mood
    Negative thoughts or feelings that began or worsened after the trauma, in the following
    way(s):
    • Inability to recall key features of the trauma
    • Overly negative thoughts and assumptions about oneself or the world
    • Exaggerated blame of self or others for causing the trauma
    • Negative affect
    • Decreased interest in activities
    • Feeling isolated
    • Difficulty experiencing positive affect
    Criterion E: alterations in arousal
    and reactivity
    Trauma-related arousal and reactivity that began or worsened after the trauma, in the
    following way(s):
    • Irritability or aggression
    • Risky or destructive behavior
    • Hypervigilance
    • Heightened startle reaction
    • Difficulty concentrating
    • Difficulty sleeping
    Criterion F: duration
    Symptoms last for more than 1 month.
    Criterion G: functional significance
    Symptoms create distress or functional impairment (e.g., social,
    occupational).
    Criterion H: exclusion
    Symptoms are not due to medication, substance use, or other illness.
    Two specifications:
    • Dissociative Specification. In addition to meeting criteria for diagnosis, an
    individual experiences high levels of either of the following in reaction to
    trauma-related stimuli:
    ⚬ Depersonalization. Experience of being an outside observer of or
    detached from oneself (e.g., feeling as if "this is not happening to me"
    or one were in a dream).
    ⚬ Derealization. Experience of unreality, distance, or distortion (e.g.,
    "things are not real").
    • Delayed Specification. Full diagnostic criteria are not met until at least six
    months after the trauma(s), although onset of symptoms may occur
    immediately.

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